One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.

When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else. The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room.

Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.

Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?

People in their early 20s are invariably weird.